Texas School Shooting

The 18-year-old gunman, armed with assault rifles and wearing body armour, opened fire at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde

Los Angeles Sheriff Alex Villanueva said that his Department's stations "will be closely monitoring and working with our station's school resources officers to ensure the safety of our children"

In some cases, misinformation about mass shootings or other events are spread by well-intentioned social media users trying to be helpful

Tragedy after tragedy, shooting after shooting, young life after young life: how many more children will die before government leaders act to keep children and their schools safe: Catherine Russell

UN chief Antonio Guterres was deeply shocked and saddened by the heinous mass shooting in an elementary school in Texas, the US, said his spokesman

In an emotional address following the school shooting incident in Texas, the US Vice President Kamala Harris condemned the attack while calling for "action and taking a stand"

Until the massacre at Colorado's Columbine High School in 1999, the number of dead tended to be in the single digits but since then, the number of school shootings have killed 10 or more

The deceased children are in the second, third and fourth grades - aged between 7 years and 10 years

President Joe Biden delivered an emotional call for new restrictions on firearms after a gunman opened fire at a Texas elementary school on Tuesday.

Texas school shooting is the 20th shooting in a US school this year. Students evacuated Santa Fe high school, about 35 miles south-east of downtown Houston